Modernism in short stories of Katherine Mansfield

Abstract

This work deals with short stories of New Zealand female writer Katherine Mansfield who significantly contributed to the diversity of modernist avant-garde art at the beginning of the twentieth century. The main aim is to analyze the short stories of Katherine Mansfield and pinpoint the experimental and innovative techniques Mansfield uses. These findings are compared with other short story writers who influence the form of the short story writing in England at the beginning of the twentieth century (particularly A. P. Chekhov, J. Joyce, and so on). The history and development of short story is summarized. Furthermore, the outline of the situation in Britain at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century is presented with concentration on a new literary genre "modernism" and "impressionism" one of literary movements that belongs under the collective term modernism. At the end, the innovative techniques of Katherine Mansfield and comparison with Chekhov, Joyce and Woolf are summarized.